New subject, clicking .png's gets wine/Outlook

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 04 September 2012 08:54:55 Colin Law did opine:

> On 4 September 2012 05:28, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 September 2012 00:26:18 Ric Moore did opine:
> >> On 09/03/2012 04:01 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> >> > You could boot into Unity and check the settings there, but whether
> >> > kmail will use the same settings or not is another matter.
> >> 
> >> Gene, you might want to use Galternatives and see if something
> >> screwed up your default browser and your editor settings in your
> >> alternatives setup. That would get you into the heart of the beast
> >> to just fix it. Right between the eyes. It's one of the most useful
> >> system tools there is. Ric
> > 
> > But its not at all useful for this, I just went thru the whole menu it
> > offers without finding a mime.type alias of any kind, and firefox is
> > the default browser for most web stuffs.
> 
> I wonder if we have been barking up the wrong tree here.  What happens
> if you double click a local .png file?  If that also fails then right
> click on a png file, select Properties > Open With, select an
> appropriate application and click Set As Default (at least that is how
> to do it 12.10, hopefully not much different on 10.04).
> 
> Colin
> 
Bingo Colin, that was the magic twanger, fixed it right up.  The wording 
wasn't the same, it asked if I wanted to remember so I put a check mark in 
the box.

Thank you very much.

> > Cheers, Gene
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Cheers, Gene
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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